Wesley K. Wark (born 1952) is a Canadian historian, an associate professor emeritus of history at the

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, and an invited professor at the

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Education

Wark earned a B.A. from

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in 1975, an M.A. from

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in 1977 and a Ph.D. from the

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(LSE) in 1984. He was a faculty member at

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from 1982 to 1983, at the

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from 1983 to 1988, and at the University of Toronto from 1988 until his retirement in 2013.

Career

Wark was President of the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS) in 1998-2000 and 2004–2006. He served on the Prime Minister's Advisory Council on National Security (2005–2009). Wark is a frequent media commentator on national security and intelligence and contemporary security issues. His scholarly interests include the popular culture of espionage in the contemporary history, the study of terrorism and counter-terrorism and modern and contemporary international relations. He was also a member of the Committee on the Civil Dimension of Security of the

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Books

* ''The Ultimate Enemy: British Intelligence and Nazi Germany'', 1985 * ''Security and Intelligence in a Changing World: New Perspectives for the 1990s'' (co-editor with Anthony Stuart Farson and David Stafford), Psychology Press, 1991 * ''Spy Fiction, Spy Films, and Real Intelligence'', 1991 (editor) * ''Espionage: Past, Present, Future?'' Elsevier, 1994 (editor)Reviews of ''Espionage: Past, Present, Future?'': Reg Whitaker, ''Canadian Historical Review''

Martin Thornton, ''Intelligence and National Security'', * ''Twenty-First Century Intelligence'', Routledge, 2013 (editor)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wark, Wesley Writers from Ottawa Canadian political scientists 20th-century Canadian historians Canadian male non-fiction writers Intelligence analysts 1952 births Living people 21st-century Canadian historians